[PATCH 1/3] [PATCH i386] during VM oom condition, kill all threads in process group

[Will Schmidt]

When we get into a state where VM has ran out of memory, and it's time to
thwack a process, we should take out the entire process group, rather than 
just one thread.

Tested on i386

Signed-off-by: Will Schmidt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
---

 arch/i386/mm/fault.c |    4 +++-
 1 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)

diff --git a/arch/i386/mm/fault.c b/arch/i386/mm/fault.c
index b8c4e25..82aec0e 100644
--- a/arch/i386/mm/fault.c
+++ b/arch/i386/mm/fault.c
@@ -567,8 +567,10 @@ out_of_memory:
                goto survive;
        }
        printk("VM: killing process %s\n", tsk->comm);
-       if (error_code & 4)
+       if (error_code & 4) {
+               zap_other_threads(tsk);
                do_exit(SIGKILL);
+       }
        goto no_context;
 
 do_sigbus:


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